'That's not what I want for you:' Nicole Kidman opens up about the nurturing Keith Urban provides

Kidman and Urban tied the knot in 2006.

Nicole Kidman has opened up about the nurturing Keith Urban provides. The Beguiled star has said that her husband acts like the "tough" one so she can let her guard down and be "raw" and "sensitive".

Speaking to Glamour magazine, the Oscar-winning actress, who has been married to the musician for 11 years, revealed that Urban does not want her to have a "thick skin" but instead wants her to be less guarded and "curious".

"As an actor, you're only as good as the things you're offered," Kidman said. "And there just weren't any women offering me things. So, when you dissect that, you realize there aren't women offering you things because they don't have the opportunities."

"I work to raise money for women's cancers; I use my voice for violence against women," she continued. "And so I was like, 'I need to be a part of the movement that will, hopefully, change the statistics of the field.'"

She added that she feels the need to get the work done and not just talk about it.

"I also can't be talking about it and not doing it. Because, to be an advocate, you have to actually put things into action," Kidman said. "It's like, 'OK, Rebecca. You're making a movie? Let's go.' 'OK, Karyn Kusama'—I'm working with her next—'we may not have an enormous budget, but let's go do it. I'll get down in the trenches with you.'"

Kidman is set to work with directors Rebecca Miller and Karyn Kusama in She Came To Me and a police thriller, Destroyer, respectively.